Jewish settlers wage arson attack on mosque and cars in Bruqin village

SALFIT, (PIC)– Armed Jewish settlers at dawn Wednesday set fire to a mosque’s entrance in Bruqin village west of Salfit city and some nearby cars, and fled away after committing their crime.

Eyewitnesses said a group of armed settlers attacked the village at dawn and tried to break into the mosque, but when they failed to open the gate, they instead burnt its entrance.

The villagers of Bruqin also complained that the Jews from Ariel settlement keep appropriating and destroying their lands in order to annex them to their settlement.

The Jewish settlers also pump deliberately industrial waste and sewage water into the village, farmers said.

Palestinian residential and agricultural areas in the village of Bruqin suffer acute ecological problems as a result of the deliberate pumping of industrial waste and sewage water into its lands from nearby Israeli settlement outposts.

Such ecological problems are affecting man, animal and nature. They include, amongst others, poisoning, spread of diseases, air contamination, breathing difficulties, damage of underground water, destruction of trees and crops as well as the ensuing damage caused to wild life in the area.